test-first SKILL.md skillA
test-first from llopresto87/cypress is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add llopresto87/cypress/test-first@git:20261014.eff8d56Pins git:20261014.eff8d56 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- llopresto87/cypress
- Path
skills/test-first/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 9
- Latest version
- git:20261014.eff8d56, committed Oct 14, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 31, 2026
- Size
- 10,142 bytes
- Repository stars
- 121
- License
- MIT
The test-shaping technique applied inside the test-first protocol — pick the lowest test level that exercises the behavior (unit, integration, contract, e2e, golden, property-based, evaluation), name the test after the spec contract, and assert one outcome per test. The workflow itself (entry conditions, RED-GREEN-REFACTOR-COMMIT gates, variants, exceptions) is the test-first protocol.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# test-first (the test-shaping technique) The cycle (RED → GREEN → REFACTOR → COMMIT, its per-phase gates, the characterize-first rule, the bug-fix and refactor variants, the migration safety gate, and the recorded exceptions) lives in `docs/graph/protocols/test-first.md`, the one home for the workflow. This skill owns the craft of shaping each test the cycle asks for. ## Test level selection Pick the lowest level that exercises the behavior. | Level | Use when | |-------------------|---------------------------------------------------------| | Unit | Pure logic, transformations, parsers, validators. | | Integration | Crossing an adapter (DB, file, network, SDK, model). | | Contract | API endpoints, structured outputs, message schemas. | | End-to-end | Critical flows, one or two per flow. | | Golden / snapshot | Deterministic transforms, prompts, renderers. | | Property-based | Algorithms where the property is clearer than examples. | | Evaluation | LLM/VLM behavior, with rubrics and pass thresholds. | ## Test shape …
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How to install
mdr add llopresto87/cypress/test-first@sha256:114980d6f05e02f2The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261014.eff8d56, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 9 versions of this file, between Aug 31, 2026 and Oct 14, 2026, about one every 5 days.
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| git:20261014.eff8d56 latest | 2026-10-14 | eff8d56 | 10,142 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261006.fa6eac5 | 2026-10-06 | fa6eac5 | 8,358 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.d572952 | 2026-09-30 | d572952 | 8,234 B | A | view · diff |
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| git:20260831.6dde434 | 2026-08-31 | 6dde434 | 2,926 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10142 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
llopresto87/cypress · 121 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-14 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ryuk3yqp5yk2lndj GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=llopresto87/cypress/test-first GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/114980d6f05e02f281d4369cf673c6a8621839ed08cca42cd7a0066fb8c3e1a7
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